The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 14, 1898, Page 26

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL UNDAY, AUGUST 14, 1898 HE event of the week was the de- arden party and fete ; at the Crocker Robles iurch wt al ch ocal colu: side of clety the ring the week, oyin pre; rested dt the Tesorts g of Rev Pe® ® REE] ® LIVELY S NE thing is certain, Diogenes wou his renown in Par] In less than have made nfire of his de: his lantern in gieeful exuberanc: troll on the Place de.la Republique. lence of the bride's ot tr ) Thursday mily riends only ited. A bower ferns jessamine was arranged for the The mantel was banked arnations and La made attractive and ¥ witlh roses and Miss Nathan will also read at the On Saturday last an enjoyable evening was spent at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Valerga, 364 Eighteenth street, in honor of the anniversary of the birt | day of the hostess and that of her niece Miss Edith Valerga. A musical and liter- ary programme of rare merit was given by the following artists well known in professional circles: Miss Ida Valerga, prima_donna; soprano, Matila Valerga; Mrs. W. Freeman, Mrs. R. D. Valerga, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Fininger, speciallsts; barytones, Charles H. Parrish, A. Isola, A. Valerga; tenors, Richard D. Valerga, C. Valerga; musicians, Mrs. T. Valerga, F. Valerga and G. Apel; Mrs. W. Wood- ward, elocutionist; and Miss Grace Par- rish, accompanist on piano. At conclusion of programme a supper was served. Others present were: Mrs. J. Burke, F. Valerga, Mrs. C. H. Parrish, Misses Noon and Gainsborough, Messrs Louis B. Parrish, R. W. Wilson, W. Ward, L. Valerga, Woodman, F. Heller and Dorland. Bennle Hirshfeld entertalned his friends at an afternoon gathering at his residence, 1519 Buchanan street, Saturday, August 6. Among those present were Miss Palymre Goldtree, Jannett Schmitt, Mabel Levy Jessie Summerfield, Rose Kailar, Paulin Olcovich, Birdie Asher, Rose Frankel, Hildah Frankel, Willie Summerfield, Syd- ney Schmitt, Sydney Witkofsky, Henry Kailar. Last Friday Miss Henrietta Flschbeck | gave a luncheon to a number of her | riends at home at 1217 Mason street, in | honor of her birthday. The table decora- | tions were lavender, and the dining-room, | parlors and hall were beautifully decor- | ated with palms and cut flowers. In the | evening Miss Fischbeck gave a muslicale Dancing and a midnight supper closed the evening’'s enjoyment. A very pleasant surprise party was given to Willlam J. Conrad on last Sat- urday evening at his residence, Sl5 Page street, in honor of the anniversary of his birth.” The affair was arranged by Miss Agnes Quadt, and the voung lady is en- titled to a great deal of credit for its | success In every particular. | The house had been beautifully deco- | rated for the occasion with flowers and | lanterns. During the evening songs were nendered by Miss Sophie Peterson, Miss Agnes Quadt, Alfred Letterme and Wil- | lam_Fenstermacher. A ~sketch entitled | “A Happy Palr’ was delightfully ren- | dered by Miss Agnes Quadt and Frank | Donnet.” A_plano duet by Louls Harder |and Miss Mamie Quadt was a feature | of the evening. At midnight the guests repaired to the banquet hall, where an | elegant repast was partaken of. Toasts | were drunk to the health of the host and | hostess. Dancing and games were the | order for the rest of the morning, and the | guests did not disperse until daybreak. Among those present were Miss Mamie | Quadt, Miss Sophie Peterson, Miss Annie | Meyer, Miss Emelie Burkhardt, Miss A nes Quadt, Miss Sophie Asmus, Mis Edlth Mitchler, Miss Emma Fenster | macher, Miss Tina Quadt, Mrs. Letterme, | Mrs. William J. Conrad, Miss Annle | Hinck, Miss Rosie Banz. Miss Mamlie | Hinck, Mrs. John Quadt, Baby Letterme. | William J. Conrad, George Hinck, Wil- | lam Fenstermacher, Charles Erb, Joseph | Quaat, Alfred Letterme, August Steige- | ter, Louls Harder, Joseph Frader, Frank | Donnet, Henry Steigeler, Louls Quardt | and John Quardt. The reception given Wednesday evening by Mrs. Ella Cook on Pacific avenue was low blooms . ge restdence of Mrs. I. L. Requa in Oakland, | 3 . Miss Ay sides of the family were repre and will be the $p feature during an | Soce o gligetho E‘\“J’n"“ Phso. May Hot aston. Mr evening at the Irish fair. T, Miss Fannle Tobin, Miss Calixa Wulzen a trip thro South- | = i B 1ma McDermott, Mrs. Wool- R ke Home Gatherings. W M . L. Dennis, Mrs. Ella Cook, t A Dleasant surprise party was given to | Gharles F. Ratto, Frapic e s 3 Pine Phila Pettis at her hom y evening, 1d music were July indulged in the Future. | on Saturd , son of Mr. and Mrs. BS Golds- Dancing, gam be confirmed on Sat in until midnight, when supper Was Serv- | gvo "hearts party at her residence, 115 in the Geary-sirest Tempie | €d. Among those present were Mrs. | Jonos street, Wednesday e hone Sunday, August 22, from 2 to 5, | ns and Mrs. Pettis, the Misses Phila | or of her guest from C | ne Pettis, Edith and Bell Evans, | dricks. Among thos will give a_dra- Kell - Cook, Lilllan Gen- | Florence Murphy, Mis recital at the Hotel | eral and Mis . Dr. Henry | Harvey, Miss L. X i inesday evening, August|G. Allen, Paul Castleton, Jack McGee, |2 oot s patronage of N Louis | Wallace H. B ton, George Gale, Ben- | Miss Glass; Albert Robinson, Perry Hen- R Deane. Mrs. Henry | Jamin Townsend, George Loucks and |dricks, G. Murphy, Mr Harvey, Frank Mrs. R. H. Warfield. | Georse Evar | Robinson, Scott Hendricks, W. ' Talbot, [OJOXO] oXoXoXoRcXCXCROROXOROXOROXORORORORORORONO] THE PAVEMENTS OF PARIS BY GENEVIEVE GREEN. 1d never have won | the effort to any one, for the spectacle is superb. Twenty- 2 a week he would ' seven thousand soldiers in the gayest of uniforms took part - old tub, smashed in the review. However, 1 American intelligence can | e and tripped the easily picture army reviews and things of that sort—it is features h For he rder to imagine the balls in the streets which are of the Paris celebration. life is plainly worth the living and philosophy m From the top of the Elffel tower to the darkest re- On the night of the 14th there were fully one hun- the sewers, Paris is gay, laughing throbbing with | dred balls on the street corners of Paris. Fortunately, the If there anyon #ho is really streets are rearly all beautifully paved, but even when s ch ot yet discove nd I have pe is not the case the galety is not affected. Cobble stones poc v with real psy no impediment when a Parisian wants to dance. All om- pr nibuses and trams are stopped on this fon, that the that the forlorn e le, that his plaint Paris Ther -light The : and happin: ent rathe 3 e all, han of condi th Eat, drir phy of t 1 revealed to them. characteris sumes a-color the ssion of the b tially, X a decided revelation to us frc is a possible laugh. | fun may not be interrupted, and carriages may come only is real, hearts are | within a certain distance. A stalwart escort is very important to the lady who would view these sights without taking part. Unless so accompanied she must become the partner in the dance of any one who grabs her. The Government, it is said, expends thousands of dollars in illuminating the city on this occa- sion, a statement that can readily be believed. .There were ! lit Ily draperies of electric ligh glittering flags, ban- ners and stars on the opera house, the Hotel de Ville and | all the public buildings in Paris. The largest of the balls were before these pla , the opera and the Hotel de Ville, but there were numerous others not 1 inte ting. The one in the Latin Quarter naturally had a character of its own. irrepressibly a question of tem- e poor of Par d to see all the , is the the 1l4th the oce; of yeople shows srisian 1‘1 !I]n-rflu‘.uu[ more than | Trilby was there and Little Billee, as well as Rodolphe and any othe t confess that I had not much | Mu te, for these individuals are permanent in the Latin interest in the of My American imagina- | Quarter. Yes, and Taffy and Schaunard were quite conspic- tion fused to sus ing else but firecrs a | uous, carrying their ladies on their shoulders. Poor Mur- soldie morning, some very prosaic | 8¢ I am thinking of his apologetic statements that there t ta ! pyrotechnic dis. | are bridges in the Latin Quarter, and that one can go ti is lite 1mittees rid k , and b ghbor. elebr in bette Ther Bastlile particular for nor ocet the rabble, and aft or the annual outle nent. the v th al day of the 14th all of the On free, from the Grand Opera-ho! in Paris, an 2 or 4 o'clock become the sc the jJam commu 1 the morning. ne of a barbecue, The marbl for the ason why French plebeian as his neve: to the humblest institution 1ces about Perhaps that is through mud without getting splashed. apparent, true, but to the looker-on the bridges are not ing In carriages-it | While the splashes are sorrowfully conspicuous. “re if vou appear | At 1 o'clock we had visited ten different balls, quitting with the one at the opera, which was undoubtedly the most | brilliant in town. Here we found women with high-heeled boots, petticoats of real lace and hats with drooping plumes dancing furiously with butchers and bakers still clad in their caps and aprons. Next to them you wonld have rec- ognized your domestic in the embrace of a bare-legged stu- something entirely ally by the people. the fall of the intended ential to as well as an- as well as an: | dent, and further on your blanchisseuse radiant with ec- s good as you" | giaey on the arm of some one to whom she could not speak a word, an American undoubtedly, clad in a costume ap- theaters are ODen | propriate for a Fifth avenue promenade. Men danced with each other by way of variety, and often a women would the entrances at | take the notion to dance alone. Perhaps her hair would be halls of the opera | gray and her poor old hands shriveled with the toil of many ants take their | vears, but feet do not grow old in Paris, and hers would P meals ;lavn‘d _camp Ul the doors are open. The celebration | compete quite nobly with the flying slippers of the gay co- zeally “u.-‘h two or three days, for the city is enlivened | quet. Over all this mixture of kitchen aprons and lacy with all the traveling show Europe. Circuses ¢ 'y | skirts, of black coats and unclean blouses, ascended innu- description, monstrosities, merry i wheels and things of that sort hundreds. And the bands of musl -rou an d organs and street | mnds, trolieys, be counted by the merable little balloons of every color of the rainbow. There were green lions, pink elephants, yes, and purple cows in dazzling array, as well as all sorts of noisy con- singers copstitute a din indescribable. ceits, singing birds, bleating sheep and squealing dwarfs. The most important event of the 14th is always| There were vendors of live birds, who plunged into the the review of the army by the President of the republic, | dance with the little tame creatures on their hats and which takes place at Longchamps. Although it did not | shoulders; truly they were the tamest and the grayest begin on this 14th till 3 o’clock In the afternoon, by | things in all the scene, these piping birds, and they, the noon every seat was occupied. Next to God the Father | Parisian tells me, were doped. himself, the French adore their army, and w giimpse of the | The balls lasted till 7 o’clock in the morning, and the review of the 14th is to them worth any amount of | 15th was again a holiday—a resting day. pushing and hauling and scratching. GOOD STORIES OF But really it is worth | PEPEEPPEPPPOPRIIRPOERIOOEO® | prs GENEVIEVE GREEN, [o¥oXoRoRoloXoXoJOXOXOROROROROXOROROROXOROXOROROROROXO] In a chapter headed, “Verbal Infelic- | T had brought my umbreila with me. ties,” occurs the following delightful | I had the presence of mind to strike yrayer: him two or three hard blows over the knuckles. He let go his hold and sank. The boat righted itself and we were saved.” or. Liddon told me of a Presbyter- ian minister who was called on at short , Harry English, Rob- ert ymance and E« rd Cluff. At mid- 30. | pight supper was served and was followed | which until 2 a. m. by dancing, Miss Rosalynde Glass gave a progres- tations, he recounted his triumps on the tented fleld and the number of paynim whom he had slain. ‘And I, too my lord,’ replied his'wife, pointing with conscious pride to a long row of | lord, have not been idle.’ deed!” —————— ' A West Gouldsboro (Me.) man tells | 2 queer story about a stone that grows. | It is an egg-shaped, flinty-looking ro | and reception to over fifty invited guests. | dolls of various sizes—'and I, too, my | Tableau in- | | | Louis Jacobi, Louls Hendricks and Jeffrey Graves. Club Parties. The R. K. L. gave their fifth successful social at Baratoga Hall on Thursday evening, August 4. The grand march was started at 9 o’clock by Jake Rapheld and Miss Pauline Aaron, followed by seventy- five couples. The floor was under the man- agement of Emil Kahn, assisted by Ig- natz Levy. El Paso de Robles. Among the late arrivals at Paso de Ro- bles are: Thomas J. Kirk, P. Claudlus, W. D.| Chamberle, L. M. Williams, H. J. Strat- | ord, . 8. Cox, R. Smyth, A. Cowan, J. B. Kelly, W. 1. Farrar, L. Behneman, C. P. Bailey, L. E. Blumberg, Jessie E. Triest, Miss A. Dougherty, D. W. Evans, | Cl'a ‘Burnham, T, M. Relily; L. Brooks, J. C. Schmidt, Mrs. John Madden, F. Seregin, Mrs. L. McDonald, William For- | ner, Mrs. W. Redstone, P. F. Meyer and | wife, E. Arendt, James Turner and wife, | E. Thompson and wife, E. Simonds, Miss | W. Bloch, J. Spruance, wife and nurse Mrs. A. C. Snyder, Charles H. Shinn, Mr. K. M. Burham, C. R. Howes, T. F. Ber- en; Claus Spreckels, wife and maid; D. | Frankel, M. J. Cahen, Ed Grurola, F. Westerberg, Leon Lewis, A. Bodelsen, Boucher, Mrs. J. D. Thornton, Miss Lane, Mrs. B. Cohen and daughter, P. Schlo- | bach, J. Marous, James Alexander, Henry C. Marous, Alfred Marous, Mrs. E. M. Rosner, Miss C. Prager, T. Prager, Mrs. Alex Smith and Mrs. Jean Bloch. Skaggs Hot Springs. The following guests are registered at Skaggs Hot Springs, Sonoma County, from San Franclsco: Judge J. B. Barry, D. J. McRay, W. F. Laughlen, C. McCol- gan, J. Maconsky, S. Aaron, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Carroll, Miss Nellie Carroll, Loretta Carroll, J. H. Helms, J. B. Cav- anaugh, May J. McDonald, Mrs. F. S. Samuels, Addie M. Samuels, Miss Ray Burnstein, Miss Jennie Burnsteln, George A. Webster, G. W. McMahon, Roland Ley- eroni, Sini’ Brizzolara, Charles Kimball, A. Glover, G. B. Beoty, Mr. and Mrs. Angus I Druker, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brown, Mrs. S. Blumenthal, Miss Sara Blumenthal, J. F. Dinan, M. Heyneman, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Wren, Miss Julla Wren, Mr. and Mrs. John Simpson, Miss Amalfe Simpson, Miss Hinrichs, Miss Ella From, Henry Wagner, Mrs. A. J. Gore, Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Detels and_ochild, Dr. H. W. Hunsaker and wife, Mrs. L Goldstein, M. Charles, G. C. Schnefder, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hopkins, P. C. Hop- kins, Mrs. J. 8. Stone, Thomas H. Browne, John 8. Maxwell, G. R. E. Maxwell; Ogk- land, Mr. and_Mrs. James Presho, Mrs. B. P. Young, Miss Young; Vallejo, A. 8. Miskin; Santa Rosa, Frank P. Grace, J. Mother; Healdsburg, J. A. Mead, Mr. and B . D. Phillips, Mrs. Mary Weaver, Cloverdale, Genevieve A. Smith, Will B! | | tells Caldwell; Stewarts Point, H. A. Richard- son, J. B. Stout. George Miiler, Bam Kee, J. Eckert, J. McCoppen. Hotel de VF’;jWOOd. The latest arrivals at Hotel de Redwood are: Mrs. C. P. Gilbert, Miss Jennie Gil- bert, Miss Mary Gilbert, Charles Kill- patrick, Berkeley; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Rodgers, Will O. Morgan, C. L. Close, H. 8. Close, W. F. Clark, C. E. Averell, San Francisco; G. Navlet, Sacramento; Mr. and Mrs. George Seitz, Watsonville; J. Mendoza and wife, Mrs. Leoline Hopkins, 'w Almaden; Mr. and Mrs. Edgar A. Neame and fami! Hanford; Mrs. Wal- lace Dinsmore, Miss Mary Dinsmore, Mids Margery Dinsmore, Miss Ella Cutter, Master Willlam Dinsmore, Marysville. Bartlett Springs. Following Is a list of late arrivals at Bartlett Springs: Charles Ragan, J. T. Blum, Neille A. Sullivan, J. R. Ruse, Michael Sulllvan, Henry Lausen, Bd Stralu, P. R. Hansen and family, I H. Schleef, Dick Bosa, P. J. Corbett, Ever- ett N. Bee, S. Salomon, William Callinan, L. Van Laak, H. E. Copp, Mrs. L. Hert- [©] which he picked up in a cove near his home about thirty years ago. Then it weighed about twelve pounds, and from its odd shape was Kept in the house and on the doorstep as a curi- osity. As the years passed the stone increased In size. Six years ago It weighed forty pounds, and now it tips the scale at sixty-five pounds. The owner swears it i{s the same stone and a likely story with numerous wit- nessees to back him up. Howard, A. L. © ® PPEOOOEE VOICE CULTURE | AS A FINE ART WILLIAM L. TOMLINS, the Well-Known Educator In Muslc. | Alice | Colusa; Mrs. Mr. Tomlins, leader of the Apollo Club of Chicago and of the chorus of children that sang at the World's Fair, has lately resigned his various po- sitions and is to give all of his time to work among children. His reputation is national for the success he has had In developing and training voices. Mr. Tomlins, though, carries his teaching of music much farther than simple notice to officiate at the parish church of Crathie in the presence of the Queen, and, transported by this tre- mendous experience, burst forth in rhetorical supplication: ‘Grant that as she grows to be an old woman she may be made a new man, and that in all righteous causes she may go forth before her people like a he-goat on the FAMOUS PEOFLE. “As a courtier Lord Beaconsfield ex- celled. Once, sitting at dinner by the Princess of Wales, he was trying to |mountains.’” cut a hard dinner roll The knife = Sicier i s e painee | Hers sxe someiEond Cexprtiier what Mr. Ru ting things.” Dean Stanley used to tell the follow- ing story of an ecclesiastical dignitary who gloried in his presenc2 of mind: “A friend invited me to go out with him on the water. The sky was threat- | ening and ‘I decline’. At length succeeded In persuading me _and we embarked. A squall came on, the boat lurched and my friend fell overboard. Twice he sank and twice he rose to the surface. He placed his hands on the prow and endeavored to climb in. There was great apprehension lest he should upset the boat. Providentially Princess, with her natural grace, in- stantly wrapped up in her handker- chief. The old gentleman gave a dra- .matic groan and exclaimed: ‘I have asked for bread and they gave me a stone; but I had a Princess to bind my | wounds.’ " ! “When Lady Beaconsfield died he sent for his agent and said: ‘I desire that her ladyship's remains should be borne to the grave by the tenants of the estate.” Presently the agent came back with a troubled countenance and .eaid: ‘I regret to say that there are not ténants enough to carry a coffin.’” he | “When Lord Dufferin was Viceroy of India. he had a sporting servant, or ‘shikary,” whose duty it was to attend visitors on their shooting excursions. Returning from an expeditionone after- | noon the shikary met the Viceroy, who | asked: ‘Well, what sort of sport has Lord — had?’ ‘Oh,’ replied the scrup- ulously polite Indian, ‘the young Sahib shot divinely, but God was very merci- ful to the birds.”” Mr. Russell does not forget to tell a few stories about children: “If the essence of the enfant terrible is that he or she causes profound em- barrassment to the surrounding adults, the palm of pre-eminence must be as- zigned to the children of a famous dip- lomatist, who, some twenty years ago, organized a charade and performed it without assistance from their elders. The scene displayed a Crusader knight returning from the wars to his ances- tral castle. At the castle gate he was welcomed by his beautiful .and rejoic- voice culture. L. TOMLINS' theory, broadly, is this: That the musical in- stinct is well nigh universal and the song voice a common heritage; that as man becomes more and more & cog in the great industrial machine and can no longer delight in the work of his hands his spiritual deadness and discontent become a menace to future genera- tions, but through music shall he find the salvation of expression for his dormant energies; that the mental, moral and physical power of music is irresistible, immortal, and in this con- nection he acknowledges its some time power for evil, as any good thing may be misused; and, lastly, that the self-unconsciousness of children renders them the fittest medium for the ing wife, to whom, after tender salu- reception and discrimination of this gospel of music. Mr. Tomlins says he hopes to live till every little one in America can rightly use the voice God gave him. “What ground is there for the popu- lar notion that it is hurtful to the adult voice to teach a child to sing?” I asked. “There are many people sin- cerely in doubt on the subject. ‘‘Absolutely no ground at all,” replied Mr. Tomlins. “It is this way: In fig- ures one can roughly represent the value of the volces, at 7, 5 and 3 and the value of the child’s vofte Is exactly the same, during all the years from 7 to 13, or 13%%. “Then at 13 years comes the rest period,” Mr. Tomlins continued. “The child is a creature neither boy nor man, a being without a name, and just as his voice wavers and wobbles so Is hig emotlonal machinery at the same tran- zell, W. Cohen, J. XK. Morris, Leo T. No- lan, Ed Hinkle and wife, G. Pfuffer, J. B. Herrington and wife, William Steele, Con O’Connell, W. A. Seth, J. E. Barry, W. B. Hosmer, Isaac Brack, Willlam Morris and wife, Annie Brack, J. BE. O’Nefl, San Francisco; W. J. J J. Lawyer, George P. Runyon an A. M. Just, A. C. Ogden, W. K. day, A. Swenson, Charles Anderson, M. Carrier, H. C. Wolf and wife, Annie M. Gerber, Charles J. King, A. M. Jost and_wife, Sacramento; M. G. Eshma;:vd. a 3. F. Herr, Mrs. A. M. Stephens daughter, Los Angeles; H. Steimiller, Vacaville; Mittie \ren, Hattle YWren, Sutter City; J. H. Rourke and wife, Oak- land; Y. G. Glenn and family, Jacuito; W. H. Davis, Oakland; A. H. Stapp apd wite, Live Oak; J. J. Rourke and W Colusa; Mrs. J. M. Dayis, Albert M. Dz vis, Florin; P. Troy, San Rafael; Elmer Little, Dixon; D. J. Farrell, Ogden; J. W. Hupp, Weaverville; Joe Brass, Marys- ville; King Bucker and wife, William: Ed Barnes, Los Angeles; E. Walsh, A'u» burn; C. A. Cook, Watsonville; F. T, Wren, J. S. Wren, Laura Pierce, S\I(tel: City; 8. M. Broyles and wife, Modesto; Henry P. Beckley Honolulu; _W. H. Pierce, Live Oak; George P. Murph Jackson; Lawrence O. Rourke, Colus: Brown, Florin; Willlam Loome: E. Henry, Dixon; J. A W. T. Beaugham, YreKa; Gridley; Edwin Swinford, Purcell and daughter, Grass Moores Flat; C. iuran, Qaklan Miss ‘Welch, Valley. Saratoga Springs. Following is a list of late arrivals at Saratoga Springs: H. K. Eells, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Gerstle, Mr. Condon and wife, Alex Wolfer, P. Fernandez, J. W. Empey, E. Kruse Jr., N. Hollings, Sam Little, R. A. Holcombe, Fred Cusheon, San Fr cisco; Miss Della Redwine, W. H. Davt Oakland; F. P. Grace, John Mather, Sa: Rosa; Mrs. Frank Taylor, Bacramento; Rosa: Ulan, Winters; George Henrf, Santa Catalina Island Recent arrivals at the Metropole are: Mrs. M. Chance, Louls Marke, Houghton Sawyer, James B. Stetson, Mrs. Robert Oxnard, Dr. J. D. Whitney, Mrs. Whit- ney, Mrs. J. Marsh, Miss Irene N. Marsh, San Francisco; Charles de Grubb, Lee Ormdort, C. G. Etchells, Tucson, Ariz W. A. Freeze and wife, Mrs. E. 8. Wil- son, Phoenix; Michael Ohl, Wilcox. Hon. Marcus A. Smith and Wwife have returned to Tucson, Aafter a a;l:gm]ntx sta e Metropole. During their visit hare “S\E‘d.‘gemesmxl:h made several fine A0S Y emiis, son of Sonator Perkins, accompanied by W. E. Dean, who have been guests of the Metropole, have re- turned to San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. £. T. Tamm and daughter have returned to San Francisco, having gpent a delightful month at the Metro- ole. POfr. and Mrs. Frank D. J. Rice of San Francisco are guests of the Metropole. D. W. Hinckley, one of the largest stock men in the State and -of the firm of Hinckley & Owens, is at the Metropole. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sutton of San Francisco_are ests of the latter's sis- ter, Mrs, E. L. Doran -f Crescent avenue. Chiet Justice Btreet and wife of Tucson, Ariz.; Miss Wickham, Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. Willlam H. Barnes, Mrs. J. H. Martin and daughter, Phoenix, are among rominent arrivals at the Metropole dur- the past week. né. G. f‘raser, nephew of the ex-Premle~ has been at the Me{ro;s‘;xle an of Canada, who Quring the summer, has returned to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas 8. Cone, after a piessant woek's stay at the Metropole: Mrs. Willlam J. Landers and daughters. Mrs. C. A. Palmer and daughters, will | the north, the former going to San Fran- clsco and the Palmers to Oakland. \s duties 1n Sacramento after a week's tay at the Metropole. Mrs. Barrett will The Geysers. Arivals at the Geysers for the past week Francisco. ave returned to their home in Red Blu! ieave on the 19th inst. for their homes in ihG(‘nerul A. W. Barrett has peturned to remain here Xox'v s?\‘erl{l:‘uek& are: I B. Owens, J. Henry Mohr, Harry ororoIcIcIcIcroIorcIoCIoRc oo o X Yo RoRo o OXOROROROROROJORCRONORORCHONORO) sitional stage, for there is the most in- timate and powerful connection be- tween the voice and the emotions, and that is, indeed, where the strength of music lies. But after two, or perhaps three years, he can sing freely again, {ncalculably the better for his early training, and his voice will catch up with his feet during the resting time, at | about the rate of one year's growth in a month.” “What about the girls, Mr. Tomlins?"” “A girl's voice needs rest, too, and for the same reasons, but with her there is not so marked a change. There I8 another thing about the child-voice which has not been sufficiently noted by the teachers of children, and that is its naturally high compass. The | man’s voice below, the woman's voice betwesn and the child’s above is the order of nature. I have taken a thou- sand children from the streets and | slums of Chicago, from the poorest, hardest lives, and within a few months they have sung, with utmost ease, the high C, time and again, before hun- dreds of astonished hearers. But it is the spirit of song which average teachers most lamentably miss; they don’t knéw where to look for it. It is| within, within, and they work from without, trying to force an unfamiliar phantasm of their own imagination into the mouth of a child, when the golden germ is within the heart of every one of them. “Then the children must be taught to use both mind and heart in their Sing- ing. Singing only from the heart is like the flying of a bird with one wing —he flops. But given the balance of mind, the child wings his way to the highest earth knows. “When 1 first get hold of a class of children taught to sing in the old way I have difficulty in shaking the self- consclousness out of them. I have sometimes to resort to the queerest methods of putting it to flight. “As to those who wish to play some instrument, as well as use their voices, I ask often that they take up the vio- lin or ‘cello; fhat with the numberless pianos some form of chamber music shall be open to them. There is noth- ing like chamber music for kegping the home together and the son from the saloon. Then along with the love of musle. we try to teach the worship of nature; the love of beautiful scenery; the grace of bending flowers and bril- lant butterfiles; the aerfal flight of birds; the music of poetry and pictured loveliness; the bsauty of men and women and little children; then, and then only, can the supreme love for one, which later comes, come safely, naturally and normally: for when the love of all things beautiful finds but one object on which to spend er a monster than an Lafcadio Hearn, by the way, volces much the same opinion in his irritat- ing: pt paper on the “Eternal Femi- nine” In an anclent Atlantic Monthly, but his is the directly masculine vis- fon, from which the feminine stand- point is most cruelly withheld. Strong- ly masculine Is Willilam L. Tomlins also; but his strength is tempered with tenderness and his is the quick intui- tion and sympathy of the best women. It is hard to belleve in his 54 years, as one looks into the bright, brown, young face, and sees the thick waves of dark hair hardly touched with gray; and the tremendous nervous’ energy, the vital, .magnetic power of the man are rarely associated in our mind with the approach to threescore years. Before leaving Mr. Tomlins I of course asked his opinion of the Cali- fornia voice, and he had many nice things to say concerning its beauty, which I here patriotically pass on. ‘“The spontaneity and freshness of the California voice delighted and sur- prised me on my visit here three years ago,”” he answered. ‘‘There is much | less self-consciousness here than in the East—that bugbear of music. Perhaps a newer clvilization accounts for it.” “We thought our climate”— I be- gan. “Climate has some effect doubtless,” | sald Mr. Tomlins, smiling, “but lan- guage has more! Witness the gut- turals of Germany, the nasals of France, the lovely liquids of Italy and still more Wales. Then the effect of Waldorf, Stephen Potter, C. A. Myers, Mrs. J. B. Schroder and daughter, Mrs. L. J. Gates, Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Sieber: Robert_Sudden, wife and daughter, M . B. Henrici, the Misses Henrici, J Sheldman, Hattie Sheidman, Grace Sheid- man, San Francisco; F. Conetis and wife, Berkeley; S. C. Farnham, John A. Britton and wife, Miss J. Eastland, Oakland; Mr, and Mrs. W. T. Lipman, Alameda; Curtls, San Rafael; Dr. and Mrs. T. | Stini, Miss_Bernice’ Thompson, Sherman | Gardner, Napa; S. J. Winans, Petaluma. Personals. Kate A. Fallon, who has been spending the summer in Portland, joined a party that made the ascent of Mount Hood. Mrs. F. W. Dohrmann left San Francls- co Friday night for New York, where she Will be met by F. W. Dohrmann, who is on his way from Europe, where he has been for the past few months. Mrs. Henry H. Paulsen of 2706 Bush street has discontinued her day at hom. Dr. C. V. Cross left Saturday -on the | Doric for a trip to China and Japan, leav- ing his practice in care of Dr. Ernest s, Pillsbury, corner of California and Fili- more streets. Miss Aurelia Amillo of Los Angeles is | the guest of Miss Florence Scatena. Miss Rose Goodman will leave Tue the 16th, on an extended visit to New York. She will receive her friends Mon- day at 1638 Geary street. Mr. and Mr: }’Iym:m Falk have moved in_their new home, 2107 Fackson street. Miss Florence Montag: as just re- turned to her home in Oakland after a three months’ vacation in the country. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Crocker havi turned from a visit to Mr. and Mr. Lowman of Los Angeles. a Miss Lizzie Keenan of Nevada City is visiting Mrs. M. Sloan and family at 5% Geary street. Mrs. Bell Adams and Mrs. F. Kemp van Ee will spend a few weeks at Van Ee Ville, Copperopolis, as the guests of their brother, J. C. Kemp van Ee. 3 Mrs. Bernstein and Mrs. Lewis have discontinued their day at home during the sulg)nmervmon(hs. £ Te- L L. W. O. Stuttmeister and wife and Willard C. Evans were the guests of Wal- ter E. Janke and John L. Lindley Jr. at Camp Laurel, Marin County, last week. Mre. L. Jacobs of Sacramento is visit- ing her son J. Jacobs, 510 Turk street. Max Boas has returned from Middle- Lake County, where he has spent four weeks. . Mrs. I. Rudee of 510 Devisadero opping at Byron Hot Springs. ohn Higgins and family m Santa Cruz. pargo_and_child a Cruz Moun- town, the past Mr. and street are st Mr. and Mrs. J have returned fro Mr. and Mrs. John have returned from the Sant ins, lfl]\;‘:s. D. M. Burns, Mrs. F. R. Danforth and Mrs. Mollie Lambert are at Shasta Springs. Ir. and Mrs. George H. S. Dryden, Jos- eph B. Dryden, Miss Susett Toher, Mr. and Mrs. James P. Dockery and Eugene G. Dockery have returned summer’s outing at John Da ¢ River, where they spent a very enjoyable time hunting, fishing and bathing. Mrs. L. Schoenfeld and family of Tulare are visiting A. Fisher of 920 McAllister street. Mr. and Mrs. B. Fisher and family of Tulare are visiting relatives in this city. Mrs. J. H. Fisher Jr. has just returned from Harbin Springs, and will be at home the second Thursday of the month Thomas P. Crowley and party from San Francisco have been spending their vacation in Sonoma County. During the past week they Kkilled six deer, among them four fine b Mr. Crow E Z y 1 one of the directors of J. J. O'Brien & Cc Mrs. M. Tausen left for t East Wednesday evening. She will a tour of Kansas, Maine and Illinois, and will be gone three or four month: n Ed Dolliver, late of Alaska, h. left for Boston on a Visit to relat Count Potowsky has returned to city after a brief sojourn in the southe part of the State. The following Californians sailed from New York the 11th inst. for Hamburg on A board the Hamburg-American liner guste Victoriat Mr. and Mrs. Alts and family, Miss A . Kohl Roeding, M. Haralamb, Frank M Sturn and Dr. F. Dolfein. ® @ character, everything affects the voice and the voice affects everything.” These are some of the tenets and be- liefs of Mr. Tomlins, w tation of being a ADVERTISEMENTS. [ 2 B B Bl ol B B b b b} ! PRICES STILL_E)WER. CLOSING OUT ALL SUM- MER LINES. In order to secure money for the payment of our entire indebtedness we have made still greater reductions in our vast stock. MOST REMARKABLE BARGAINS Ever known will be placed before the public on Monday. The regular values mentioned in every case are reliable. BLACK DRESS G0ODS. AT $2.00 ¢ H NGLISH IAN CLOTH, sultable for tallor-made garments, worth §3 50 per yard; will be offered at $2. ENGLISH AT SO0cC T e S5ie 5 an times for 75c per yard, will be placed on sale this weck at e Colored Dress Department. A’l‘ 50c 52-INCH ALL WOOL COVERT SUITING, ex- cellent value for §$125 a yard; to close at 50c a yard. AT 25c¢ inches 1 width, shaded effects, good value for 75 o yard; clearing sale price, per yard, 25c. Ladies’ Sifll)ress Skirts At $5.00. LADIES' BLACK BROCADED SIL DRESS SKIRTS, lined with s serge and bound with velvet; worth #0; will be placed on salé at ¥ each. LADIES SUITS. At $5.00. LADIES' SUITS in brown mixtures, fly front jackets lined with silk serge; skirts double-lined and bound with velvet, worth $10, wiil be placed on sale at $ each. LADIES” WAISTS. At 35c. LADIES' PERCALE AND GINGH SHIRT WAISTS, 10 all fancy asloms of pink. blue and tan: regular price “e; will be placed on sale at She. 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